# Help me recast "The Rocky Horror Picture Show"...with Muppets! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [August 15, 2023, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recast-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-muppets/988587 "2023-08-15T03:51:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recast-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-muppets/988587/21 "2023-08-15T09:03:57Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Piggy is just too much to play a straight-laced virgin. She’s far more suited for Columbia or Magenta Swap Piggy and Denise, then. Although, remember, she only is strait-laced until her laces are … un-straitened. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recast-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-muppets/988587/22 "2023-08-15T09:13:37Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Gonzo as Frank (he is an alien after all) I’d be tempted to cast him as Riff Raff, while giving the role of Frank to The Count. And it feels like Sam The Eagle should be in the mix. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recast-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-muppets/988587/23 "2023-08-15T09:22:43Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I’d be tempted to cast him as Riff Raff, That could also work for Gonzo - then Camilla as Magenta? > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > while giving the role of Frank to The Count. I think of The Count as strictly Sesame Street, not Muppet movie cast. > [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > And it feels like Sam The Eagle should be in the mix. Dr Scott? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recast-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-muppets/988587/24 "2023-08-15T09:25:42Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Dr Scott? Janet! ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recast-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-muppets/988587/25 "2023-08-15T10:07:21Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > Dr Scott? Tom Smith wrote the [Rocky Horror Muppet Show](https://tomsmith.bandcamp.com/track/rocky-horror-muppet-show-excerpts) back in 1987, fans have performed it at cons over the years. He had Sam the Eagle as the Criminologist. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recast-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-muppets/988587/26 "2023-08-15T10:30:13Z")
Ooh, yes, that works. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recast-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-muppets/988587/27 "2023-08-15T12:18:26Z")
> [@themapleleaf](#): > > OK, so who do you think is living today who could do a love duet with a frog? Katy Perry. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recast-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-muppets/988587/28 "2023-08-15T12:21:51Z")
Rocky should be Grade A corn-fed beef, all-American male, dim and humorless. I nominate Sam the Eagle. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recast-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-muppets/988587/29 "2023-08-15T14:35:10Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > This thread makes me proud of humanity. This is the greatest idea I’ve ever heard. And this was the look on my face when I opened the thread: [https://www.aveleyman.com/Gallery/2017/J/8573-7628.jpg](https://www.aveleyman.com/Gallery/2017/J/8573-7628.jpg) “Now why didn’t anybody think of that before? It’s so stupid it’s positively brilliant!” But it turns out someone did! I have to see this… ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recast-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-muppets/988587/30 "2023-08-15T15:10:29Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Katy Perry. She’s more an [Elmo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy9iD1QazIw) kind of girl… ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recast-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-muppets/988587/31 "2023-08-15T15:25:19Z")
[Uncle Deadly](https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Uncle_Deadly) HAS to be in this production!! He’s more of a Vincent Price character but I could plug him in as Riff Raff. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recast-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-muppets/988587/32 "2023-08-15T15:26:09Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > And it feels like Sam The Eagle should be in the mix. I vote for Sam playing Dr. Scott, with the “triple transvestite” reveal during the floor show. There’s something about that that’s fitting for America. I’m trying to remember. The deep deep dark early days of the interwebs (we’re talking 1990s here). I’m vaguely remembering someone having a full script for The Rocky Horror Muppet Show. I’m digging, but not having exact success. I did find (related to the link above) [a partial script](http://www.cosmosfactory.org/script_t-mupp.shtml), but it’s not the one I was thinking of. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recast-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-muppets/988587/33 "2023-08-15T16:05:19Z")
> [@themapleleaf](#): > > OK, so who do you think is living today who could do a love duet with a frog? Obviously Carol Kane. ([https://youtu.be/3oND3q3tfsg?t=27](https://youtu.be/3oND3q3tfsg?t=27)) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2023, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recast-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-muppets/988587/34 "2023-08-15T16:28:36Z")
Did not find what I was looking for, but I did find (submitted for your approval), [The Rocky and Bullwinkle Horror Picture Show](http://www.cosmosfactory.org/script_rockbull.shtml) complete script. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-recast-the-rocky-horror-picture-show-with-muppets/988587.md?page=1)